Saw a neighbor in Austin use a paint scraper to fix his deck boards and it blew my mind
I was walking my dog past this house a few weeks ago. The guy was working on his deck. He had a 4 inch putty knife, the kind you use for drywall. He was sliding it under the warped boards and lifting them just enough to drive a new screw in. I stopped and asked him about it. He said he'd been doing it for years, saves him from pulling up the whole board. I tried it on my own deck last weekend. Had a board that was cupped pretty bad. Used my own putty knife, lifted it maybe an eighth of an inch, and screwed it down flat. Worked perfect. No more tripping hazard. Has anyone else found a weird tool that works for a job it wasn't made for?